Welp. Sometimes you make plans. And sometimes God laughs at your logical planning ways while throwing a great big wrench into your great big plans.

I had just started thinking about a few projects I might like to work on. You know....a slow reentry into life beyond the newborn colic. Then came the wrench....

That's our floor being ripped off the slab. A couple days ago James noticed a quiet hissing noise near the fridge before he went to bed. We figured it was the water cycling through the new filter we had just changed. Oh, if only.

The next morning we could still hear it, but there we no visible signs of a leak. So, James planned to pull the fridge out after work for a little investigating. Turns out we wouldn't need to wait that long.

A couple hours later I noticed bubbles at the seams of the flooring and a distinct squishy sound when walking on said floor planks. We indeed had a leak.

Within a couple of hours our insurance had connected us with a restoration company and our floors were coming up in soggy chunks. We now have the worlds loudest fans drying out the ground and are speaking in conversational shouts over the jet engines.....and applying chap stick in liberal amounts thanks to the dehumidifier.

A couple "funny" things....

Just two days prior to this I looked around the family room and thought "I should really take some pictures of this wackadoodle room before I start changing things up". I don't have any pics of it other than moving day, and I've had the urge to make it feel less like a catch-all yard sale site. So, I snapped some pics.

Just two days prior to that, I was walking through Home Depot and thought "Hmmm. I know we probably can't afford to do the floors in the kitchen/family room for another year or two, but we should really look to see if they still have the flooring from our living/dining room and stock up as we can before they discontinue it".

Well, thanks to our insurance, hopefully a whole lot of that flooring will show up here in a few days. We had to pay a painful deductible, but it was WAY BETTER than the price of paying for someone to fix the problem in total out of pocket.

This is the second time our insurance has come to our rescue in the past few months (the last time was major body work on our car after an accident). We're feeling a bit sucker punched, but mostly really grateful. God has been so faithful to bring good out of our "what the heck?!?!" moments and this is no different.

The family room is also one of our spaces in most need of purging. Since we're going to have to move out all the furniture for them to replace the floors, we're going to take this week to really purge as we clear things out.

Aaaaannd since I had already planned on giving this room a little refresh this spring, we may go ahead and knock out some bigger projects that were on the long term list for these rooms. I'm even thinking I might tackle the kitchen. Why? Because I belong in the loony bin.....and the last time we took on a kitchen makeover it really displaced us for awhile. Since we're already displaced for the next couple weeks (but thankfully still have a mostly functional kitchen), we may as well take advantage of the construction zone state of the things. Of course, that all depends on a certain 2 1/2 month old and how much she'll let us get done.